On this day: Jimi Hendrix, U.S. rock singer and guitarist, died of a drug overdose in 1970

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on September 18: 1961 – Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish statesman and Secretary-General of the United Nations, was killed in a plane crash in what was then Northern Rhodesia. 1964 – Sean O’Casey, Irish playwright whose works…

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